Windows Ultimate team provides an update on Extras

The Windows Ultimate Extras Team today posted a short notice on the Windows Vista Ultimate site updating the community on the status of Ultimate Extras; go here to read their post.  To sum it up for you here, the team recognizes that they've been dark for some time on the topic of Ultimate Extras, but want to go on record that they plan to deliver pending DreamScene and Language Pack Extras by summer's end, and expect to disclose a schedule of further Extras releases after that milestone.  The reason for the Extras' delay has been the team's staunch devotion to final quality; your feedback, on DreamScene in particular, has been key to ensuring their focus on meeting the community's exacting standards.  They plan to add to the Extras line up from then on out to make Ultimate the only version of Windows Vista you'll want to use.

And before you ask:  no, I don't have any additional details, as the team has priorities that supersede my questions (in other words, they're hard at work).  But, know that I'll pass along any feedback you may have for them, be it regarding the current slate of Extras or what you'd like to see the program deliver in the future.


Comments

  1. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 10:37AM  

    so let me get this right...

    we users have to wait 9 months to get was was promised to us??? how is this called a sorry ?? a sorry would be giveing a few offers to say sorry for waiting 9 months to get what you paid for 9 months ago.

  2. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 10:40AM  

    Im glad your just joking about the Hacking the site down threat "Bring More Extras NOW", that's not cool.  Software companies have often had trouble meeting deadlines due to unforseen circumstances, Microsoft is no exception.  However its better that they perfect the code now rather than release it buggy earlier, in this case giving the team a little more time to get things just right could pay off with a better performing Ultimate product with Extras.

    Hopefully by the end of Summer though the new Extras will be out!

  3. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 10:48AM  

    i only said about the hacking part was because a few of my posts was not posted. I wish i knew how to hack I would then start my own security biz. like kevin mitnick.

  4. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 5:23PM  

    the ability to use a second vista box (either ultimate or home premium) as a media center extender.  If you guys can do it with the XBox 360 surely you can do it with a full blown computer.  As a laptop owner it would be great to be able to use media center on my laptop (Vista Ultimate) to access my media center content on my desktop (home premium) ... and I'm not simple referring to sharing the videos folder.  It would be great to be able to control the TV Tuner card too.

  5. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 5:27PM  

    I somehow left off the first part of my previous post.  What I meant to say was ...

    A GREAT extra would be the ability to use a second vista box (either ultimate or home premium) as a media center extender.

  6. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 6:31PM  

    How about beefing up some of those ancient accessories? Those would make great Extras, IMO.

    1. An enhanced replacement for notepad that does not take forever to load large files and has lots of great text editing features. Also, a beefed up WordPad.

    2. A graphing calculator. (WPF 3D would be great for surface plots. hint hint)

    3. A beefed up mspaint.exe that has a small subset of the most useful photoshop features. Also, icon editing would be great.

  7. Posted on: July 03, 2007 at 8:09PM  

    you should probably make an early ie8 and vista service pack 1 beta available for ultimate users since most of us are the more tech savvy crowd and can more easily fix problems that do go wrong

  8. Posted on: July 04, 2007 at 5:32AM  

    An iLife kind of suite (especially, powerful versions of Windows Movie Maker & DVD Maker) may stop the drain to Macs. And of course whatever-happened-to-Garageband-clone (Monaco) and beefed up WordPad, Paint, Sound Recorder, Calculator, Windows Contacts etc... all written in WPF.

  9. Posted on: July 04, 2007 at 11:14AM  

    Ridiculous.

    After all this time and the extra money spent purchasing Vista Ultimate over Home Premium or Business edition, all we get is a footnote to say 'it's still coming?'.

    I don't understand how the team responsible for extras can suddenly be in the dark for producing extras (what, you temporarily disbanded to go work on someone else's team?), but get your act together.

  10. Posted on: July 04, 2007 at 2:35PM  

    Hi "Bring More Extras NOW", yeah sometimes my posts dont get posted to, usually though its because I post links to other sites that may not be approved/or have a unapproved post like msblog or the like.

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